Outdoor Painting

[jsscooby]

Has anyone had the guts to forgo the paintbooth with its filtering and baking capability and have tried to save some change by painting your car outside on a well chosen day. I am starting to have those guts. Has anyone tried this? If so, please share your experience.

 

[93 Talon Boy]

I haven't tried it, but it seems like there are too many variables that could go wrong. In the end, a paintbooth will give you much better quality and no risking a bad paintjob. I would just give up the money and do it nice. just my $.02

 

[jsscooby]

Yeah Paint booth is definelty always better, problem is generally you have to pay someone to paint it and if your lucky you can borrow booth for a day.
AS far as doing it outside, I am not to worried about dust or leaves falling due to the area we are going to do it in, I am just worried about a bird flying over and crapping on it.
For my car, I would like a nice finish, I have it prepped already, but it ios not worth while for a $1k paint job to go into it.

 

[Slipstream]

i agree, spring for the booth to get it done right, even the best day might have an errant gust of wind, an evil bird that sees your wet paint as a target, pollen in the air, etc, etc, etc...just one thing that noone could control or forsee and your beautiful paintjob and countless hours of prep just got wasted. We can all spot a bad paintjob from a mile away, or worse yet bad body work...in my opinion it just isn't worth the risk, this is your baby how many hours have you worked on her? driven her? how much money have you spent on her? would you really want to risk giving her what should be the best paintjob of her life and instead having it turn into a nightmare that you have to look at and deal with everytime you see it? my additional $.02

 

[HighPsi92GST]

we have painted a car in one of those 2 car tent type things before. maybe look into one of those.

 

[Defiant]

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Gnats.

 

[9D9 MITSU RS]

My friend painted his targa top and put it outside in the sun. It had to be redone in the booth b/c a moth walked across it. I have seen a jeep around here that was painted outside, and you couldn't tell. I think he built a frame with 2x4s and put tarps up or something.

 

[greyforestgst]

i painted my front bumper outside and let it dry on a porch

no probs